 Turkey appears to be winning the battle against a bird flu outbreak that killed four children this month, with no new human cases reported since Jan. 18, but experts warned that the lethal H5N1 strain could still pose a serious threat to the country. Although it has not proved as deadly in Turkey as in East Asia, where more than half of those infected have died, a senior European Union health official warned Friday that more Turkish cases of bird flu in humans are likely. "I would not at all be surprised if there were sporadic cases" of humans being infected by the deadly H5N1 strain in Turkey, said Angus Nicoll, of the Stockholm, Sweden-based European Center for Disease Control and Prevention....
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